Morning, and then going into the upper 60s by early this afternoon. You notice yesterday we have the high clouds moving in, were going to see the same thing again today and our temperatures matching yesterdays as well. Well talk about whats ahead coming up in six minutes and mike is getting you out on the roads with the look at the commute. Kari i have a Traffic Alert which just developed. Aaron in our control room is watching the monitors and showed the flashing lights. We can see approaching San Francisco on that upper deck getting toward the city so shy of the fremont fulsome exit. They did not make it there. The vehicles involved in a crash are still in your middle lanes, that say problem coming off of the Treasure Island tunnel and getting into the tunnel, shows some slowing down, mid span so thats a problem and likely going to cause the metering lights to be slow as well on the oakland side. We have a build nor westbound 80 getting into San Francisco. Other routes throughout your commute looking great. Maybe the san mateo bridge or Richmond Bridge, try those this morning if those are your options. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Its a big day on capitol hill. In a few hours the nation will get a firsthand look at the impeachment process. The House Intelligence Committee begins highly anticipated public hearings, where we find jay gray this morning, with a closer look at what we can expect. Jay . Hey there, laura, marcus, good morning. Today marks a big shift in this historic process. Its also a big test. Does the public care, are they interested and do they have the intensity that lawmakers have shown over the last couple of months when it comes to impeachment . Just hours the impeachment investigation goals public. I think its very important to tell the story to tens of millions of americans who have not yet heard from the witnesses themselves. Reporter the first two witnesses are bill taylor, americas top diplomat in ukraine, and george kent, the Senior State Department official in charge of policy involving ukraine. President trump continues to label the process a hoax and witch hunt. Going absolutely nowhere. Dont worry about it. Reporter overnight, democrats and republicans huddled behind closed doors working through lastminute strategies, questions and talking points. Gop leaders challenging the process. They dont have the right to stop us from speaking, even though they changed the rules to deny us the right, even though they changed the rules to deny us the right to have witnesses. Reporter democrats confident in what the public hearings will reveal. Theres more evidence to prove that the president attempted to bribe or extort ukraine than there is evidence to support the idea the sun will come up in the east tomorrow, period. Reporter as the sun comes up this morning over capitol hill, the impeachment inquiry enters a new and both sides agree critical stage. The public hearings continue friday and we learned last night, laura, there will be at least three more public sessions, probably more but we know of three for certain, those coming tuesday, wednesday and thursday of next week. A lot to take in there. Is it only lawmakers asking the questions during the Public Inquiry . You know, no. There will be lawyers on both sides, both republican and democratic staff lawyers who will be there. Theyve been doing some of the private deposition work behind the scenes and theyll ask questions. Adam schiff, the chairman of the committee, says he will likely yield most if not all of his time to the lawyers, so youll hear from the lawyers than the lawmaker, important to how the public judges all of this, because if it gets bogged down in legalese and some of the language is tough to understand, that many fear could turn off the public thats right, they want to know something relatable. Thanks so much, jay gray, live from washington. Watch todays entire hearing at 7 00 a. M. On today in the bay. Coverage will preempt the today show and remember every morning scott mcgrew has analysis of all the news out of washington, depending only when you wake up, you can see him at 5 45 or watch a new report at 6 45. Follow him on twitter and facebook. Happening today, Vice President mike pence arriving in california for a jampacked visit. First hell visit santa ana, then head to monterey. Then he travels to the south bay tonight with a planned stop tomorrow at Nasa Ames Research Center in mountain view. Thats where hell tour the facility and speak to workers before heading back to washington. One mans trash is turning out more and more to be everyones problem, and later today, leaders in the east bay will announce a new program to fight Illegal Dumping. Today in the bays bob redell live for us in walnut creek, and bob, i know this is a big problem not just for the east bay, but really throughout the bay area. Reporter and unfortunately, some weve started to notice more and more over the past three to five years, marcus, especially under and around our interstates, rural roads, and different spots throughout the city in the bay area. A few hours from now, the district attorneys for both Contra Costa County and Alameda County along with other state and county leaders, theyre going to announce a 750,000 Pilot Program funded by the state that will help Law Enforcement go after people who dump their trash illegally on the sides of roads and other places where they arent supposed to. To give you an idea, talking about Contra Costa County, in 20172018, Illegal Dumping cost Contra Costa County 600,000 in cleanup costs. Compare that to just 200,000 in increase, a 200,000 increase from the year before, gives you a sense of how much more dramatic the problems become. This is according to the think tank, a group that includes representatives from the d. A. s office, the Sheriffs Office and public works. Take oakland as an example. In 2016, that citys Public Works Department cleaned up around 29,000 piles of illegally dumped trash. Thats double the number of pickups from five years before. And pickups are expensive. It cost public works here in coco county around 260 to pick up a cubic yard of illegal trash. If that person had just taken that same pile of garbage to the dump, it would have cost that person around 32. Reporting live in walnut creek, bob redell, today in the bay. Hopefully that money makes a difference, because that is not a sight anyone wants to see. Thanks, bob. 6 07 for you right now. Thousands of university of California Service and Health Care Workers plan to walk off the job today. The union accuses uc of outsourcing jobs to pay lower wages. Earlier this month, the uc spokesperson told the mercury news the union wont budge on its wage demands. This will be a oneday strike. Uc leaders say critical operations will not be affected, and no patient appointments are in jeopardy at its medical facilities. 6 07. A live look this morning at sfo, and thats where in a few hours the International Terminal departures hall will be named after ed lee. Lee was San Franciscos first asianamerican mayor. He served from 2011 until his death from a heart attack in 2017. Current mayor london breed is expected to attend todays dedication ceremony. She took over for lee, following his death and recently won reelection. A new chance at a restart, for former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. After walking away from the 49ers after the 2016 season, kaep will get a chance to show nfl teams if he still has what it takes. Today in the bays kris sanchez joins us live at levis stadium this morning. I guess his heart has never been far from the game, kris. Reporter yes. Somebody asked why now . Its been three years since Colin Kaepernick was in a 49ers jersey at levis stadium. It seems like the nfls announcement he was going to have a private workout for teams came as a bit of a surprise for his own team as well. In a tweet he writes i am and just getting word from my representatives that the Nfl League Office reached out to them about a workout in atlanta on saturday. Ive been in shape and ready for this for three years. Cant wait to see the head coaches and gms on saturday. The nfl set up saturdays private workout in atlanta and invited all teams to show up to watch the 32yearold quarterback run through a workout, also answer some questions. While kaepernick says hes ready, hes been working out five days a week for the last three years, that really is not a lot of notice for the coaches and the general managers, most of whom have sunday games to be ready for. At this point, it is not clear which of the 32 teams are going to attend this private workout. Here is some back story. Kaepernick opted out of his contract with the niners at the the end of the 2016 season, hasnt played since. He was criticized and praised for taking a knee during the National Anthem to protest Police Brutality and social injustice. In 2017 he sued the league for colluding to keep him from playing again and earlier this year he and the nfl settled out of court. We dont know if this workout is part of the settlement. Several teams asked about kaepernicks availability. The nfl is responding to that. He did lead the niners to the super bowl back in 2013. I am asking what you think about this on twitter, on facebook and instagram. Let me know what you think. So far it seems like people are feeling pretty positively about the fact hes getting another chance. In santa clara, kris sanchez, today in the bay. Thanks so much. Losing her audio there, sorry about that. 6 10. Update on the upcoming 49ers telecast in two weeks, taking on the Green Bay Packers at home. The became is prime time on nbc bay area, air on sunday night football on november 24th, starting a little after 5 00 p. M. Right before thanksgiving. I know, certainly hoping for football weather then, until then well deal with the football weather we have now. Right weve seen football weather everywhere else except for the bay area. Look at how cold it is. Marcus you were telling us your mom is really cold, its 21 degrees in memphis now. Ooh. Tell her to hop on a flight and come to the bay area, seeing some much warmer temperatures here, and were seeing highs that are going to be warmer than a lot of other spots across the country. Actually our morning temperatures right now at 52 degrees, as you head out the door we still have one more warm day before we get a cooldown in the forecast. Were in the mid70s in the trivalley today, while santa rosa will reach 75. Heading over to mike, you still have that Traffic Alert on the bay bridge. Thats right, on the span, which is a problem for folks coming over across westbound 80. We can see it from our camera in the city, flashing lights, more crews arriving, department of transportation on scene, so chp your middle lanes are blocked by a crash getting in to San Francisco past the Treasure IslandYerba Buena Island tunnel causing the metering lights to slow and built off the maze. Everywhere else is okay. Your options are the san mateo bridge, the richmond to san rafael bridge or b. A. R. T. Has no delays underneath that jamup. The south bay the east bay and peninsula, youre okay. Back to you. Thanks, mike. 6 12 right now. Next a local story thats got everybody talking. One bay area driver taking couch surfing to a whole new level. A fast level, too, right there. Well have more on this video and where this unique car sighting was. I thought something cool happened on the dow and i was going to tell you about it but thats not a couch on a highway. I thought i got nothing. Just tune in when today in the bay continues. Come on, you try to up that. You got a commercial break. It is 6 15, the south bay with a live look and temperatures in santa teresa in the low 50s. This is the way we started all week long and were going to see more of the same weather we had yesterday as the sun kind of tries to make it through those high clouds moving in. Were still going to have above normal temperatures today, about you it drops tomorrow. Ill have more on that and the outlook for the next two weeks, coming up in less than five minutes. And were looking at still that very slow drive, right now from mid span across that bay bridge, into San Francisco, i see fewer lights over there at the crash scene, approaching the city but i see a lot more lights stacking up aapproaching the Treasure Island tunnel. Well talk about that and the rest of your commute coming up. And good morning, very happy wednesday to you. Here is something you dont see very often. The dow ended right where it began, like a coin flip that ends up on its edge. Doesnt mean anything. But it is unusual. Tesla says it will build a car factory in germany. San franciscos 89 bio sank a bit in its first day of full trading. San francisco Business Times counted it up, 34th bay area ipo this year, tying last years number. All eyes on the impeachment hearing of course today. President trump spoke to the new York Economic Club on wednesday, told people who know a lot about the economy that the government had predicted a lousy economy ahead before he was elected. In 2016, the department of labor predicted that americans would continue dropping out of the workforce in record numbers. They predicted and projected a decade of sluggish growth, and they expected unemployment over 5 and really 6, 7 and in some cases 8 for years to come. Mmm, that led us back into the records. The department of labors bureau of labor statistics does make tenyear predictions, but it sounded strange an economist would make such a wide guess from five to eight. We found the actual numbers, the president was correct about one thing, people predicted to come out of the labor force because america is growing older, and people are retiring. The six, seven and even as high as 8 figure was nowhere to be in the data. Fed chairman Jerome Powell will speak to Congress Today in a hearing that no one will watch. Id be surprised if the members of congress are going to watch, because of course today is the first day of public impeachment hearings. Powell testifies at 9 00 a. M. Our time. The impeachment hearings start at 7 00 a. M. Our time. And of course we will have live special coverage on nbc right here on nbc bay area and about 6 45 ill walk you through what to look for. Sounds good. Youve heard of couch surfing, right . Take a look at this. This happened as a driver was driving doing a double take now, last night near hillsborough. Video taken this last night, a car shaped like a couch driving on southbound interstate 280. We did a little digging and found out it belongs to a mechanic named ed china. Hes a former host of a british tv series called wheeler dealers. Looks like its going pretty smooth. No lumps in that couch. I know. Are they sure that the right couch driver that they got . Maybe its a different, you know so many couches you see out there, that could be anybody driving that couch. Couch surfing. It has the english plate on it, too. It was going smooth. With the lamp and everything. There you go. Smooth sailing. Way to go, ed. Smooth sailing into the week, too, with this weather. Its been nice especially for the afternoon hours but we started out cool again, and some fog that youll have to drive through in San Francisco. None of that as we take a live look outside in palo alto, as we get started today, we have some low 50s. Now just like yesterday, we have these high clouds overhead, and the sun is trying to break through that and give us a little bit of some warmth as we go into the rest of the day. We go from 51 degrees at 7 00 to about 69 degrees at 1 00. Still a nice day ahead, as youre about to wake up the kids and get them ready for school in concord, expect it to be cool on the way to school, still need that jacket as youre walking to school, with temperatures in the low 50s, as they head out for lunch and recess, it will be the upper 60s and as you go back to pick them up, it will be partly to mostly cloudy, and still nice and warm, if you want to go to the park, it will be in the mid70s. Well see some low 70s for san jose. Oakland today reaches up to 68 degrees and some mid70s for the north bay. San francisco still breezy and foggy to start with a high of 63 degrees today. As we look out the next couple of weeks, were like okay, whats going on here . We still have this High Pressure thats kept us dry, and the Climate Prediction Center still says that were going to be below average with our rainfall, but it looks like thing could change for Southern California and parts of the desert southwest, and were still going to have above normal temperatures. Weve seen that all month long, well above average temperaturs s may likely continue for the next couple of weeks. High pressure is moving off to the east allows for very brief cold front to drop in for the next couple of days, well have some cooler air. Going into the weekend, theres still quite a few storm systems moving across the Pacific Northwest but blocked by High Pressure once again. Well be warming up, staying dry and going into the end of next week the low moves into Southern California, that may bring them some rai